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Prof. Sam Lake

Professor

B.Sc. Australian National University,
Ph.D. University of Southampton

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5653
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: sam.lake@sci.monash.edu.au
Dr. Sam Lake
Research areas
  • Community ecology with emphasis on aquatic systems
  • Ecology of freshwater ecosystems, in particular flowing waters, lakes and temporary water bodies
  • Role of disturbance (both natural and human-generated) in structuring communities
  • Restoration ecology in Streams
  • Impacts of exotic invaders
  • Freshwater crustacean and fish ecology

Honours projects for prospective students

Recent publications

  • Downes, B.J., Barmuta, L.A., Fairweather, P.G., Faith, D.P., Keough, M.J., Lake,P.S., Mapstone, B.D. and Quinn, G.P. 2002. Monitoring Ecological Impacts. Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

  • Lake, P.S. 2001. On the maturing of restoration: Linking ecological research and restoration. Ecological Management & Restoration 2: 110-115.

  • Lake, P. S. 1995. Of floods and droughts: River and stream ecosystems of Australia. In Ecosystems of the World, Vol. 22. River and Stream Ecosystems (eds C.E. Cushing, K.W. Cummins and G.W. Minshall). Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 659-694.

  • Douglas, M. and P. S. Lake. 1994. Species richness of stream stones: an investigation of the mechanisms generating the species-area relationship. Oikos 69:387-96.

  • Closs, G. P. and P. S. Lake. 1994. Spatial and temporal variation in the structure of an intermittent stream food web. Ecological Monographs 61:1-21.

  • Downes, B. J., Lake, P. S. and E. S. Schreiber. 1993. Spatial variation in the distribution of stream invertebrates: implications of patchiness for models of community organisation. Freshwater Biology 30:119-32.

  • Lake, P. S. and D. J. O'Dowd. 1991. Red crabs in rain forest, Christmas Island: biotic resistance to invasion by an exotic snail. Oikos 62:25-29

  • McComb, A. J. and P. S. Lake. 1990. Australian Wetlands. Angus and Robertson, Sydney.

  • Lake, P. S. 1990. Disturbing hard and soft bottom communities: a comparison of marine and freshwater environments. Australian Journal of Ecology  15:447-88.

  • Poff, N.L., P.L.Angermeier, S.D.Cooper, P.S.Lake, K.D.Fausch, K.O.Winemiller, L.A.K.Mertes, M.W.Oswood, J.Reynolds and F.J.Rahel 2001. Fish diversity in streams and rivers. In "Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment" (eds., F.S.Chapin III, O.E.Sala and E.Huber-Sannwald). Springer, New York. Pp.315-349.

  • Palmer, M.A. and P.S.Lake. 2001. Invertebrates, freshwater, overview. In " Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Volume 3." (ed., S.A.Levin) Academic Press, San Diego. Pp. 531-542.

  • Lake, P.S., M.A.Palmer, P.Biro, J.Cole, A.P.Covich, C.Dahm, J.Gibert, W.Goedkoop. K.Martens and J.Verhoeven. 2000. Global change and the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems: Impacts on linkages between above-sediment and sediment biota. BioScience 50 : 1099-1107.

  • Lake, P.S. 2000. Disturbance, patchiness, and diversity in streams. J.North American Benthological Society 19 :573-592.

  • Downes, B.J., P.S.Lake , E.S.G.Schreiber and A.Glaister. 2000. Habitat structure, resources and diversity: the separate effects of surface roughness and macroalgae on stream invertebrates. Oecologia 123:569-581.

  • Green, P.T., P.S.Lake and D.J.O'Dowd. 1999. Monopolization of litter processing by a dominant land crab on a tropical oceanic island. Oecologia 119: 435-444.

  • Lake, P.S. 1998. After the inundation: long-term changes in the fauna of Lake Pedder, Tasmania. Pp., 565-578, in Proceedings of "Wetlands for the Future: INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference" (ed., A.J.McComb). Gleneagles Publishing, Adelaide.

  • Quinn, G.P., P.S.Lake and E.S.G.Schreiber. 1998. A comparative study of colonization by benthos in a lake and its outflowing stream. Freshwater Biology 39: 623-636

  • Downes, B.J., P.S.Lake, E.S.G.Schreiber and A.Glaister. 1998. Habitat structure and regulation of local species diversity in a stony, upland stream. Ecological Monographs 68: 237-257.

  • Green, P.T., D.J.O'Dowd and P.S.Lake. 1997. Control of seedling recruitment by land crabs in rain forest on a remote oceanic island. Ecology 78: 2474-2486.

  • Closs, G.P. and P.S.Lake. 1996. Drought, selective mortality and the coexistence of a native and introduced fish species in a Victorian intermittent stream. Env.Biol.Fishes. 47: 17-26.

  • Gawne, B and P.S.Lake. 1996. The effects of disturbance on a herbivore-epilithon interaction in an upland stream. Hydrobiologia 331 :153-160.

  • Downes, B.J., P.S.Lake and E.S.G.Schreiber 1995. Habitat structure and invertebrate assemblages on stream stones : A multivariate view from the riffle. Aust.J.Ecol. 20 :502-514.

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